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Inspirational Quotes About Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley in California has been the tech mecca of the world since 1939 when David Packard and William Hewlett started an electronics company in their Palo Alto garage. It's reputation grew tenfold when Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak did the same almost 40 years later. It's a place of innovation, risk, and inspiration for many in technology and business field. Here are some of my favorite inspirational quotes from Silicon Valley startup leaders and quotes about the aura of Silicon Valley.1) “Silicon Valley has some of the smartest engineers and technology business people in the world... I just think people from Silicon Valley can do anything.” – Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX2) “Silicon Valley is a mindset, not a location.” – Reid Hoffman3) “At the core of Silicon Valley is a passion for ‘yes.’” – Steven Levy4) “The natives of Silicon Valley learned long ago that when you share your knowledge with someone else, one plus one usually equals three. You both learn each other’s ideas, and you come up with new ones.” – Vivek Wadhwa5) "We who work in technology have nurtured an especially rare gift: the opportunity to effect change at an unprecedented scale and rate. Technology, community, and capitalism combine to make Silicon Valley the potential epicenter of vast positive change." - Justin Rosenstein6) "What people often ask me is, 'What are the ingredients of Silicon Valley?' While the answer to that is complex, some of the ingredients I talk about are celebrating entrepreneurship, accepting failure, and embracing a mobile and diverse workforce." -John Roos7) "I think that's exactly what Silicon Valley was all about in those days. Let's do a startup in our parents' garage and try to create a business." - Walter Isaacson

8) “Silicon Valley is completely different: people here really live on the edge.” – Linus Torvalds9) "Over the next 10 years, I expect many more industries to be disrupted by software, with new world-beating Silicon Valley companies doing the disruption in more cases than not." - Marc Andreessen10 "The more angels we have in Silicon Valley, the better. We are funding innovation. We are funding the next Facebook, Google, and Twitter." - Ron Conway Makes me want to take another business trip out to the west coast!